People in AI

McMaster wrote to employees defending the company's decision to sell Spot robots to ICE despite employee petition.

Amanda Pendleton

Executive

Home trends expert at Zillow

Commented on Zillow's Virtual Staging feature explaining how it helps buyers envision themselves in homes.

Author of "Our first advanced nuclear reactor project with Kairos Power and Tennessee Valley Authority" in Google Blog

Argues that traditional hourly billing no longer fits AI-era tech work and proposes hybrid contracts combining base fees, usage charges, and outcome bonuses to align value with effort.

Built SaaStr's AI VP of Marketing (10K) agent and runs close to 30 agents with nearly a million uses, demonstrating agentic marketing at scale.

Broadcom's finance chief who discussed the company's residual value guarantees for AI labs and the economics of enabling major AI companies.

Addressing security concerns and monitoring in autonomous system deployments.

Amit Khanna

Executive

Senior Vice President and General Manager of Health at Salesforce

SVP and General Manager of Agentforce Health at Salesforce discussing the expanded collaboration with CVS Health for AI-driven call center experiences.

Singhal declared Google is maniacally focused on reducing friction between users and information, exemplifying optimization mindset.

Amit Taylor

Executive

TrueUp

Provided exclusive data on open engineering roles at Big Tech and top startups.

Amitosh Swain

Executive

CodeRabbit

Wrote about context engineering for AI code reviews and how CodeRabbit performs tens of thousands of code reviews daily using carefully engineered context.

Block's CFO and COO who stated the company uses a model agnostic AI strategy and that open source AI models often develop faster.

PayPal executive partnering with Anthropic on AI Fluency for Small Business training program.

Veteran of Amazon, Nuro, and Uber; joined Bedrock as VP of operations.

Co-author of IEEE Spectrum article on AI water usage; leads sustainability initiatives at Microsoft.

Expressed excitement about bringing 1Password's trusted access management to the new Comet browser.

Kicked off the inaugural MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium Symposium, emphasizing the need to ensure collective wisdom keeps pace with advancing generative AI technology.

Noted that negative free cash flow was due to growing capital expenditures, almost entirely related to AI spending, with 60% for servers and 40% for data centres.

Author of "OpenAI Collects Public Feedback on Its Model Spec, Releasing the Dataset on Hugg" in OpenAI

Director of Operations at Rescue Air & Plumbing who implemented Avoca's AI customer service representative and coaching tools, resulting in improved booking rates and promotions for two CSRs into management.

Stated that China currently leads the United States in the early commercialization of humanoid robots.

Leading sessions on monitoring and securing environments with autonomous systems.

Andrew Carroll

Executive

Product Lead at Google Research

Co-authored research on DeepSomatic, an AI tool using convolutional neural networks to identify tumor variants.

Chang discussed how Koa helps healthcare teams manage complex workflows and coordinate information more effectively.

Nuro's COO discussing Houston launch and the company's universal autonomy platform.

Explained Hume AI's approach to understanding tone, emotion and paralinguistic cues in voice AI, solving the 'I'm fine' problem.

Andrew Freedman

Executive

Co-Founder and CEO at Fathom

Signed a public letter calling for safety testers in AI labs.

Andrew Hill

Executive

Corporate Vice President of Surface Product at Microsoft

Microsoft Surface product leader who discussed design priorities of performance, battery life, and display for the Surface Laptop Ultra.

Andrew Melouney, Vice President for Digital at Woodside Energy, describes the company's approach to building AI systems for industrial operations and the Startup Advisor copilot.

Former IBM executive who acknowledged Watson for Oncology faces significant challenges and defended against clinical trial requirements.

Andrew Qu

Executive

Chief of Software at Vercel

Discussed agents as new software type requiring different infrastructure including sandboxes and secure code execution.

Discusses NVIDIA's software enabling restaurant companies to improve operations and customer experiences with AI, highlighting the Yum partnership.

Announced Visa's six new AI-powered tools to modernize credit card dispute resolution, which processed 106 million cases in 2025.

Author of "NASA Partnerships Allow Artificial Intelligence to Predict Solar Events" in NASA

Andrew Wang

Executive

Co-Founder & CEO at Valon Technologies

Led Valon, a mortgage servicing startup where over 90 employees canceled Cursor subscriptions to use Claude Code for 10x faster task automation.

Head of audience development and social media who posted on LinkedIn defending the Halo launch as driven by women on the team.

Leads AT&T's data and AI strategy and governance, overseeing AI development and execution across the $122 billion company's consumer, business, and back-office functions.

Discussed Twilio's investment in Coval and the importance of evaluation and reliability tools for voice AI agents.

Explained the Customer Zero philosophy and how Salesforce uses its own products internally for testing and improvement.

Quoted discussing NASA's Phase 1 contracts and Space Act Agreements for commercial space station development

Author of "How Starcloud Is Bringing Data Centers to Outer Space" in NVIDIA

Ani Mohan

Executive

product leader at Google Labs at Google

Represents NotebookLM team and discusses collaboration opportunities with publishers through Featured Notebooks.

Named as a specialist for scheduling a follow-up veterinary appointment in a demo prompt example

Anish Kattukaran

Executive

Chief Product Officer, Google Home & Nest at Google

Author of "Gemini for Home: Your household's new, more helpful assistant"

Anjul Bhambhri

Executive

Senior Vice President at Adobe

Adobe executive overseeing Netomi platform integration into Adobe's Brand Concierge agentic ecosystem.

Led adoption of workspace agents, which enabled Sales Consultant to build, evaluate, and iterate Sales Opportunity agent without engineering team support.

OpenAI lawyer quoted explaining the company's rationale for seeking to unmask funders of organizations critical of OpenAI.

Global consumer and market insights lead provided analysis on sentiment differences between the two companies' ad campaigns.

Barclays CFO who told reporters that around 60% of job cuts will impact support functions like developers, showing how AI is enabling headcount reduction in those roles.

VP of Business Development quoted on Figma's Dev Mode MCP server integration with GitHub Copilot for design-to-code workflows

ARIA chief executive who announced the ban on wholly AI-generated music from charts, saying it gives artists clear rules to work to.

Led Stellantis' collaboration with Wayve and NVIDIA on autonomous driving technology deployment in France.

Stated that the rollout of ChatGPT Edu marks an exciting step in Oxford's digital transformation to harness AI for accelerating research and innovation to address global challenges.

Lego's sustainability boss discussing the new recycled tyre material and the company's sustainability goals.

Annica Hagen was appointed as Saint-Gobain's first chief artificial intelligence officer in September, tasked with defining how AI can support the company's strategic plan.

Highlighted strong public interest in Wayve autonomous rides for London with over 100,000 Londoners signing up to Interest List.

Discussed Deepgram's partnership with Coval to ensure voice AI infrastructure quality.

Appointed as CFO of xAI and X, former Morgan Stanley banker who previously advised Musk on Twitter deal.

Security executive who cautioned against viewing AI as substitute for foundational security practices and emphasized need to operationalize advanced AI models effectively.

Anthony Maggio

Executive

Chief Product Officer at Runway

Left Airtable after five and a half years to become CPO at Runway, focusing on AI video and world models.

Anuj Mehndiratta

Executive

Founding Member at Thrive Holdings

Discusses Thrive Holdings' expansion into regulatory services for physical infrastructure with AI.

Board chair who left after new nine-year term limit rules; had previously resisted parent company pressure to remove her

Anush Elangovan

Executive

VP AI Software at AMD

VP AI Software at AMD, praises TorchComms for delivering fault-tolerant distributed communication across diverse hardware.

Aparna Chennapragada

Executive

Chief Product Officer for AI Experiences at Microsoft

Describes 2026 as a new era for alliances between technology and people, emphasizing AI collaboration rather than replacement of humans.

Provided statement about the copyright lawsuit settlement and Anthropic's commitment to developing safe AI systems.

Co-host with Reid Hoffman on Possible podcast discussing AI tutoring capabilities.

Chief Science Officer at Wispr working on the Advanced Interfaces Lab team.

Arkady Dvorkovich

Executive

President at FIDE

Russian chess leader facing EU visa sanctions for pro-war statements.

Shared how Lenovo's technology and expertise contributed to AI innovations for FIFA World Cup 2026, including improved offside decisions and 3D replays.

Levinson moves from non-executive chairman to lead independent director as part of Apple's CEO succession transition.

Arunavha Chanda

Executive

Student

Created a GPT for developing common language around performance reviews

Referenced in "OpenAI's New CPO"

Executive at Xaira Therapeutics who formerly ran large molecule drug discovery at Genentech.

Byline author announcing Claude Platform availability on Google Cloud with full feature parity.

Warned that power constraints will continue despite Data Centre Covenant measures, citing major AI project losing anchor customer due to grid delays.

CFO of UiPath involved in insider sales activity totaling over 950,000 shares.

Author of "IBM and NASA Release Groundbreaking Open-Source AI Model on Hugging Face to Predict Solar Weather an" in IBM Newsroom

Ashraf Eassa

Executive

NVIDIA

Author of "As AI Grows More Complex, Model Builders Rely on NVIDIA" in NVIDIA Blogs

Discussed mapping every CS activity to customer product outcomes and emphasized multi-threading to managers for agentic adoption at scale.

Discussed L'Oréal's Maybelline virtual try-on integration into ChatGPT and described LLMs as the 'front door to beauty discovery'.

Leader at Intuition Robotics discussing ElliQ AI device adoption among senior citizens.

Avital Balwit

Executive

Chief of Staff at Anthropic

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's chief of staff and fiancée of Leopold Aschenbrenner.

Axel Backlund

Executive

Co-founder at Andon Labs

Explains that Luna's high-stakes decisions receive human oversight and discusses using AI management experiments to inform public discourse on future of work.

Head of Engineering quoted on Postman's view of MCP as foundational AI agents infrastructure and API accessibility

Quoted as highlighting how Claude's 1M context enables in-house lawyers to view full partnership agreements and track negotiation changes across multiple rounds.

Managing Director at Accenture Federal Services discussing AI applications in government, DOE's Genesis Mission for scientific research infrastructure, and the challenges of deploying AI in classified environments.

Barrie Mullins from Arm discussed how Gemini Robotics ER 2 represents an important step in physical AI reasoning.

Barry Lam, Quanta Computer founder and chairman, dined with Jensen Huang celebrating years of partnership manufacturing AI infrastructure.

Quoted discussing the challenge of balancing data center infrastructure investment with market demand risk.

CrowdStrike's chief AI officer who described SafeMind's co-evolving agentic system as enabling defenders to act at machine speed.

CEO of Upscale AI discussing the company's mission to build AI-native networking infrastructure and secure $190M Series A-1 funding.

Appointed as president of TENEX following 20+ years of enterprise cybersecurity leadership and prior role at Charles Schwab.

Bay Gross

Executive

Microsoft

Bay Gross co-authored the announcement introducing Copilot Health, Microsoft's AI-powered health companion integrating medical records and wearable data.

Ben Cohen

Executive

Co-Founder at Ben & Jerry's

Author of "Ben & Jerry's Co-Founder Says Magnum Ice Cream Company is Trying to Silence the Brand's Social Missi"

CFO of Brex reporting directly to Franceschi alongside new COO.

Ben Goodger

Executive

Head of Engineering, ChatGPT Atlas at OpenAI

Co-authored post explaining the complex engineering behind ChatGPT Atlas browser architecture.

Head of exposure management firm that confirmed PHP2Shell vulnerabilities are real by reproducing CVE-2026-109618

Co-author announcing Google's Vibe Coding XR for generating physics-aware WebXR apps from prompts.

Replacement for Ke Yang as head of the Answers, Knowledge, and Information team.

Principal consultant and security analyst at ISG commenting on how AI is transforming the cybersecurity landscape and client demands.

CEO of GPU risk management firm noting borrowers are eager for financing even at higher costs.

Anthropic head of startups discussing the expanded Claude Startups program

Alternative legal services provider executive stating that if legal AI succeeds in regulated environments it can succeed in less stringent industries.

Discussed curation of action space with limited tools

Bikash Koley

Executive

Google

Author of announcement of Google's €13 billion investment in Finnish AI infrastructure.

CIO stated Chevron aims to be leader in driving future of energy with AI and joined Responsible AI Institute to safeguard human values with AI.

Senior vice president and general manager of optical systems and optics at Cisco discussing USFP collaboration with Nvidia.

Estimates the company saves $1.5-2 million per year with every percentage point improvement using AI analytics and discusses AI's role in troubleshooting and decision-making.

BuzzFeed product director and Branch Office founder presenting AI-powered consumer apps including BF Island and Conjure.

Announced KPMG's global alliance with Anthropic to integrate Claude across its business and 276,000+ employees.

Business owner of Top Flight Electric who adopted Avoca AI to automate after-hours and weekend support, improving booking rates from 5-10% to over 70%.

Snap's CTO acting as lead investor in Dotmo spinoff while continuing to lead GenAI research at Snap.

Author of "The Second Wave of MCP: Building for LLMs, Not Developers" in Vercel

CEO of Dreadnode, AI security testing company being acquired by CrowdStrike, leading the team joining CrowdStrike's Cyber Superintelligence Lab.

Brent Hecht

Executive

Director of Applied Science at Microsoft

Called AI news scraping the 'largest theft of labor in human history' and 'astonishing theft' in internal documents.

Leads the data center build and delivery program at OpenAI.

SpaceX CFO with approximately $1.2 billion net worth from company's IPO valuation at $1.77 trillion.

From Microsoft; joined Abi Noda from DX to share early research on AI's impact on engineering velocity, discussing modest PR throughput gains versus industry headlines.

Google executive who announced Assistant shutdown timeline in blog post.

Emphasized importance of human voice, empathy and authenticity in thought leadership content over engineered rankings.

UnitedHealthcare chief executive mentioned in context of Apple's erroneous AI-generated news summary.

Led Apollo's Reddit strategy to increase brand citation rate by 63% in AI-generated responses.

Joined General Intuition after publicly quitting Palantir over ICE work, helping shape company's ethical AI approach.

Described FedEx's role in enabling the AI infrastructure revolution by shipping semiconductor chips and servers for data center construction globally.

Overseeing Official NYNJ World Cup Concierge AI system built with Neurun.

CEO of AI film studio commenting on rapid AI adoption in Hollywood despite public resistance.

North Carolina pharmacist who invented the original Pepsi Cola formula in 1893 and named the drink

Shared at Palantir's AIPCon 9 conference how the DoW is driving enterprise-wide adoption of data, analytics, and AI for warfighter decision advantage.

COO discussing Brex's strategy to use AI to reduce manual operational work and rethink internal roles

Former Microsoft Research Asia researcher leading Momenta autonomous driving company in its Hong Kong IPO.

Program manager discussed how agentic AI improves safety in autonomous inspections by reducing reliance on manual checks and validating conditions continuously.

Called UPS's intelligent logistics network initiative 'The Network of the Future' and is leading the company's AI transformation across operations.

Carol Stubbings

Executive

Global Chief Commercial Officer at PwC

Commented on research showing AI's power to deliver for businesses and create new opportunities through Agentic AI at enterprise scale.

Championed UPS's 'Customer First, People Led, Innovation Driven' strategy with emphasis on AI and automation encompassing every aspect of the business.

Author of "Sora 2 Might Be the Craziest AI Tool We've Ever Seen" in OpenAI

Leads strategic national security policy initiatives at OpenAI; stated concern is about terms of service violation, not open models.

Carra Wu

Executive

Head of Product at Parallel Web Systems

Discussed how compute cost is a signal for valuing content in Parallel's revenue-sharing model.

Discussed radical collaboration for creating value in industrial software.

Key contributor to Cohere Transcribe model development.

Chandra Raghavan

Executive

Principal PM at Google

Left Meta after nine years to join Google working on Search AI as principal PM.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Charles Foster

Executive

Member of Policy Staff at METR

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Charles Guillemet

Executive

Chief Security Officer at Ledger

Ledger CTO warned that AI allows attackers to scan code and uncover vulnerabilities at machine speed.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Discussed how DLSS 5 enables building the kind of worlds Ubisoft has always wanted for Assassin's Creed Shadows.

Quoted about excitement for Upwork partnership and making it easier to build businesses through ChatGPT.

Stanford professor and co-founder of robot company Physical Intelligence who co-authored post on universal post-training for robotics.

Chen Goldberg

Executive

Executive Vice President of Product and Engineering at CoreWeave

EVP at CoreWeave who commented on training DeepSeek-V3 in two minutes on largest GB300 cluster.

Chetan Rane

Executive

Head of Product for Agents and RL Environments at Scale AI

Quoted discussing Scale AI's ability to adapt quickly to new frontier spaces like agents and environments

Stated that SK Hynix plans to double production capacity in five years but customers say even that is not enough.

Highlighted Claude Security's scan quality and integration into vulnerability management.

CEO of Azumo who rejected the idea that AI is only about predictive text and argued that best systems integrate reasoning and pattern recognition.

Chirantan 'CJ' Desai joined Meta as Chief Enterprise Platform Officer, leading the new Meta Enterprise Platform. He was previously CEO and President of MongoDB.

Left OpenAI as part of executive departures in 2026 preceding company's anticipated IPO.

Anthropic Korea executive emphasized the strategic importance of the Korean market during a press conference in Seoul.

Chris Ackerson

Executive

Senior Vice President of Product at AlphaSense

Senior Vice President of Product at AlphaSense who commented on integration of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite for advanced data processing and intelligence delivery.

Chris Canal

Executive

CEO at EquiStamp

CEO of AI safety evaluator EquiStamp discussing impact of website blocks on AI agents' perceived value and usefulness.

Chris Caso

Executive

Analyst at Wolfe Research

Analyst questioned whether the deal represents genuine collaboration or political theater, noting the key uncertainty is whether Nvidia will manufacture at Intel's fabs.

Announced partnership with OpenAI to support advertising in ChatGPT through Amazon Ads.

Former VC board adviser to Factory who joined competitor Cognition as CRO; accused of sharing confidential information with Cognition.

CEO of VerticalScope who shared that AI community assistant ForaFrank increased posting rates for new users by 40%.

Referenced as a notable Canadian astronaut demonstrating Canada's history in space exploration.

Discussed how Pinterest MCP helps integrate Pinterest directly into team workflows for analysis and performance insights.

Chris Kelly co-authored the Copilot Health announcement describing AI-powered health insights from integrated medical and wearable data.

Appointed to Anthropic's board of directors; former CFO of Microsoft and General Motors with IPO experience.

Commented on Waymo's emphasis on public acceptance of autonomous driving technology.

CEO of Instacart announced the launch of Clementine, the new AI-powered grocery shopping assistant.

Christian Cantrell

Executive

Founder and Chief Product/Prompt Officer at Reve

Author of "Reve Launches AI-Powered Platform for Precise Image Creation" in Reve

Christian Klein stated SAP's partnership with OpenAI for Germany to make frontier AI tools available to government agencies through sovereign cloud infrastructure.

CEO stated disappointment with Mistral AI quality and announced decision to switch to open-source models including Chinese alternatives.

CEO of Schwarz Digits who commented on the Cohere-Aleph Alpha alliance as a strategic partnership to accelerate development of sovereign AI infrastructure.

Christian Weichel

Executive

Chief Technology Officer at Ona

CTO at Ona who co-presented on primitives of self-driving codebases and background agent infrastructure.

Kosmowski stated that employees need more than top-down directives to be convinced that a new tool is worth learning and adopting.

Verizon spokesperson provided official statement about outage resolution and customer credits.

ECB chief discusses AI productivity gains in Europe matching US and China.

Co-authored BCG study on AI ROI and value generation.

Arrested for allegedly smuggling tens of millions of dollars worth of AI chips to China through his California-based company.

Contributed insights on thought leadership requiring data and independent research as foundation for credibility.

CEO of Character AI who stated that a court-supervised sale provides the best opportunity to maximize value for stakeholders.

Colin Fleming

Executive

Chief Marketing Officer, Business at OpenAI

Hired from ServiceNow as CMO for OpenAI's business unit, joining after 13 years at Salesforce and 2+ years at ServiceNow.

Described Tesla's fourth-quarter performance as 'fuzzy' and noted focus on the company's capital expenditure plan.

Discussed OpenAI's partnership with Cognizant on operationalizing frontier cyber capability within enterprise workflows.

Corey Lynch

Executive

Head of AI at Figure

Demonstrates the object permanence test with keys and caps, explaining essential capabilities for domestic robots

Worked with GuideGeek to deploy AI assistant Frankie for tourism in Frisco, Texas.

Cosmin Nicolaescu

Executive

Former CTO at Brex

Transitioned from CTO role to adviser position during company restructuring.

Co-chair of unofficial U.S.-China Track II AI dialogue; acting as go-between on AI negotiations.

CEO of Getty Images announcing multi-year partnership with OpenAI to display licensed Getty Images content in ChatGPT.

Commented on how Salesforce customers receive polished solutions while internal teams went through trial and error to get there.

Hired from DocuSign to oversee investor relations at OpenAI as part of IPO preparations.

Explained Island's agentic control plane architecture unifying five critical layers for governing AI and human work.

Omaha Productions content leader discussing use of AI in WSOP coverage to bring back mainstream poker appeal.

Dan Huot

Executive

Spokesperson at SpaceX

Provided live commentary on Starship V3 flight, explaining technical details and mission objectives.

Stated that agentic AI spans personal agents, enterprise applications, and complex workflows with different compute requirements.

Quoted on Vantage's investment in Wisconsin data center campus for AI infrastructure.

CTO at Netlify discussing how AI agents expose architectural assumptions in developer platforms that assumed human intervention.

Dane Mathews discussed how Voice AI gives Taco Bell the ability to ease team members' workloads and unlock new ways to engage with customers.

Research Director at Swisscom, discussed the company's deployment of Apertus and commitment to sovereign AI ecosystem.

Co-announced the release of MedGemma 1.5 for medical imaging and MedASR for medical speech-to-text.

CFO discussing the employee secondary sale and company's focus on long-term growth

Author of Claude Enterprise announcement about unified Chat and Cowork experience.